The Committee to Protect Journalists has said Nigerian authorities should immediately drop plans to charge Timothy and Daniel Elombah, editor and chief executive respectively, of the independent Elombah news website. A federal court in Abuja is scheduled to arraign the…
Month: February 2018
KADUNA CRISIS: TWELVE CONFIRMED DEAD
Twelve people have been confirmed dead in the crisis which engulfed Kasuwan Magani village in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Monday. The state police command on Monday said, seven people were killed while 15 others were injured.…
PRESIDENCY RELEASES STANDARD FORMAT FOR ADDRESSING PRESIDENT BUHARI
The Federal Government of Nigeria has released a new directive on how President Muhammadu Buhari should be addressed at formal functions. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, gave the directive in a circular sent to ministries,…
ILLEGAL MIGRATION- SARAKI DECRIES HIGH LEVEL OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
The Nigerian Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has decried the high rate of human trafficking in the country. According to a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Sanni Onogu, Mr. Saraki made this known while speaking at a Round-table on…
WE ARE COMMITTED TO CREDIBLE ELECTIONS- INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared that there is no going back on the timetable for the 2019 general elections which was released on January 9. According to the timetable, presidential and National Assembly elections will hold on…
QUIT THE APC IF YOU MUST SABOTAGE PRESIDENT BUHARI- SEN. ADAMU
Sen. Abdullahi Adamu has advised his fellow party members in the National Assembly to quit the party if they must sabotage President Muhammadu Buhari. Adamu was removed as chairman of the Northern Senators Forum last week and is one of…
SAUDI ARABIA PERMITS THE ENLISTMENT OF WOMEN IN THE ARMY
In the deliberate policy to give more freedom to women, Saudi Arabia has permitted the enlistment of women in the army. The country continues to enact reforms granting females more access to a wide range of previously forbidden careers. Women…
THE SHRINKING OF LAKE CHAD HAS BECOME A GLOBAL CALAMITY- BUHARI
President Muhammadu Buhari has said Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad Republic are threatened by the shrinking of the Lake Chad Basin. The president also said “the situation in the Lake Chad has left over 40 million people in dire need of…
THE TRAGEDY OF A NATION- REUBEN ABATI
Karma is a bitch. Poetic justice is a bastard. Both have combined to wrong-foot the incumbent Buhari administration to make it look like a big mistake and an act of misjudgment by the Nigerian electorate. If Buhari had been disallowed…
KGS DESCRIBES LEADERS OF SAVE KOGI PROJECT AS ‘BUNCH OF FAILURES’
Kogi State Government has described leaders of the Save Kogi Project as a “bunch of failures,” who are unsettled by the giant strides the administration of Alhaji Yahaya Bello is recording in the state. Reacting to a statement by the…